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108Public Deliberation: Pluralism, Complexity, and DemocracyMIT Press. 2000.Bohman develops a realistic model of deliberation by gradually introducing and analyzing the major tests facing deliberative democracy: cultural pluralism, social inequalities, social complexity, and community-wide biases and ideologies.
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117Cosmopolitan RepublicanismThe Monist 84 (1): 3-21. 2001.Cosmopolitanism and republicanism are both inherently political ideals. In most discussions, they are taken to have contrasting, if not conflicting, normative aspirations. Cosmopolitanism is “thin” and abstractly universal, unable to articulate the basis for a “thick” citizenship in a republican political community. This commonly accepted way of dividing up the conceptual and political terrain is, however, increasingly misleading in the age of the global transformation of political authority. Ra…Read more
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Monique Deveaux, Cultural Pluralism and the Dilemmas of Justice (review)Philosophy in Review 22 401-404. 2002.
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123Theories, practices, and pluralism: A pragmatic interpretation of critical social sciencePhilosophy of the Social Sciences 29 (4): 459-480. 1999.A hallmark of recent critical social science has been the commitment to methodological and theoretical pluralism. Habermas and others have argued that diverse theoretical and empirical approaches are needed to support informed social criticism. However, an unresolved tension remains in the epistemology of critical social science: the tension between the epistemic advantages of a single comprehensive theoretical framework and those of methodological and theoretical pluralism. By shifting the grou…Read more
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157Intelligibility, rationality and comparison: The rationality debates revisitedPhilosophy and Social Criticism 22 (1): 81-100. 1996.
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98After Philosophy: End or Transformation? (edited book)MIT Press. 1986.The selectionsfrom the work of fourteen contemporary philosophers not only display the multiplicity of approachesbeing pursued since the breakup of any consensus on what philosophy is, but also help to clarifythis proliferation of views and ...
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Habermas, Marxism and social theory: The case for pluralism in critical social scienceIn Peter Dews (ed.), Habermas: A Critical Reader, Blackwell. pp. 53--86. 1999.
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96"System" and "lifeworld": Habermas and the problem of holismPhilosophy and Social Criticism 15 (4): 381-401. 1989.
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29Do Practices Explain Anything? Turner's Critique of the Theory of Social PracticesHistory and Theory 36 (1): 93-107. 1997.
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75Introducing Democracy across Borders: from dêmos to dêmoiEthics and Global Politics 3 (1): 111. 2010.Before launching into the précis of my book, let me first describe the state of democracy, as I see it, in order to discuss the motivations for writing a book about democracy across borders. It is the best of times and the worst of times. According to the current wisdom, we live in the golden age of democracy. In the absence of any viable alternative, liberal democracy is taken to be the only feasible formof democracy and goes unchallenged. Democracy is now recognized in international documents …Read more
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66Democracy Across Borders: From Dêmos to DêmoiMIT Press. 2007.Today democracy is both exalted as the "best means to realize human rights" and seen as weakened because of globalization and delegation of authority beyond the nation-state. In this provocative book, James Bohman argues that democracies face a period of renewal and transformation and that democracy itself needs redefinition according to a new transnational ideal. Democracy, he writes, should be rethought in the plural; it should no longer be understood as rule by the people, singular, with a sp…Read more
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War and democracyIn Larry May & Emily Crookston (eds.), War: Essays in Political Philosophy, Cambridge University Press. 2008.
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35Causal Pluralism Without Levels: Comments on HumphreysSouthern Journal of Philosophy 34 (S1): 115-127. 1996.
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134The Democratic Minimum: Is Democracy a Means to Global Justice?Ethics and International Affairs 19 (1): 101-116. 2005.I argue that transnational democracy provides the basis for a solution to the problem of the “democratic circle”—that in order for democracy to promote justice, it must already be just—at the international level. Transnational democracy could be a means to global justice. First, I briefly recount my argument for the “democratic minimum.” This minimum is freedom from domination, understood in a very specific sense. Employing Hannah Arendt's conception of freedom as “the capacity to begin,” the fo…Read more
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1Improving democratic practice : practical social science and normative idealsIn Jeroen Van Bouwel (ed.), The Social Sciences and Democracy, Palgrave-macmillan. 2009.
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Frankfurt SchoolIn Audi Robert (ed.), The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, Cambridge University Press. pp. 278--279. 1995.
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360Realizing deliberative democracy as a mode of inquiry: Pragmatism, social facts, and normative theoryJournal of Speculative Philosophy 18 (1): 23-43. 2004.
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33Pluralism and the Pragmatic Turn: The Transformation of Critical Theory, Essays in Honor of Thomas Mccarthy (edited book)MIT Press. 2001.The essays in this volume reflect on and expand Frankfurt School critical theory as reformulated after World War II by Karl-Otto Apel, Jürgen Habermas, and others. Frankfurt School critical theory since the pragmatic turn has become a richer source of critical analysis that is at the same time socially and politically more effective. The essays are dedicated to Thomas McCarthy, who has done perhaps more than any other scholar to introduce English-speaking audiences to contemporary German critica…Read more
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17Democratic Experimentalism: From Self-Legislation to Self-DeterminationContemporary Pragmatism 9 (2): 273-285. 2012.As developed by Sabel, Dorf and Cohen, and John Dewey before them, democratic experimentalism is based on the premise that current democratic practices are no longer able to deal with central and pressing social and political problems. Beginning with the criticism of democracy as command and control, Dorf and Sabel show how current democratic practices are part of the problem rather than the solution. Even as democratic experimentalists have successfully explored democracy beyond the state in th…Read more
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57Pluralism, indeterminacy and the social sciences: Reply to Ingram and Meehan (review)Human Studies 20 (4): 441-458. 1997.This article defends methodological and theoretical pluralism in the social sciences. While pluralistic, such a philosophy of social science is both pragmatic and normative. Only by facing the problems of such pluralism, including how to resolve the potential conflicts between various methods and theories, is it possible to discover appropriate criteria of adequacy for social scientific explanations and interpretations. So conceived, the social sciences do not give us fixed and universal feature…Read more
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78A response to my critics: Democracy across BordersEthics and Global Politics 3 (1): 71-84. 2010.It is a special privilege for me to have my book, Democracy across borders, discussed by insightful critics, all of whom in one way or another have contributed to emerging thinking about democracy, globalization, and international institutions. But it is also a privilege to have it discussed in this particular journal, which I see as a very good example of a transnational (rather than international) space for reflection and communication on matters of global politics. It is transnational, at lea…Read more
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34Nondomination and transnational democracyIn Cécile Laborde & John W. Maynor (eds.), Republicanism and Political Theory, Blackwell. pp. 159--216. 2008.
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